Travel and transformation / [edited by] Garth Lean, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton.

Travel and tourism have a long association with the notion of transformation, both in terms of self and social collectives. What is surprising, however, is that this association has, on the whole, remained relatively underexplored and unchallenged, with little in the way of a corpus of academic lite...

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Other Authors: Lean, Garth (Editor), Staiff, Russell (Editor), Waterton, Emma (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]
Series:Current developments in the geographies of leisure and tourism.
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Table of Contents:
  • Exploring travel and transformation / Garth Lean, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton
  • Lifestyle travel, tropophilia and identity transformation / Jon Anderson and Kathyrn Erskine
  • Travel as critique and transgression in Michel Foucault and Colin Thubron / Drew Ninnis
  • Doing good : transforming the self through transforming the world / Fiona Allon and Maria Koleth
  • Saddos and Saddhus : transcendence as breakdown in Geoff Dyer's Jeff in Venice/Death in Varanasi / Bianca Leggett
  • "Home is lovelier than the way home" : travels and transformations in Mahmoud Darwish's poetry / Rehnuma Sazzad
  • The nomad, the refugee, the developer, and the migrant : four stories of inner-city travellers in Johannesburg, South Africa / Shannon Walsh
  • Temporality, technologies and techniques of the self : long-distance walking as secular pilgrimage / Leila Dawney
  • Memories of forced transformation through travel in 1948 / Lynda Mannik
  • Young backpackers and the rite of passage of travel : examining the transformative effects of liminality / Amie Matthews
  • Notes on strategies for leaving and arriving home / Sarah Rodigari
  • Facebook and facelifts : communities of cosmetic surgery tourists / Meredith Jones, David Bell, Ruth Holliday, Elspeth Probyn and Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor
  • Material transformations : place, process and the capacity of tourist souvenirs in the home / Kimberley Peters
  • Lasting impressions / Garth Lean, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton.
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